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It has oblong leaves with a broad base, and acute tip, 

 coriaceous and drying black, glabrous except the shoots 

 and young leaves which are silky. The flowers are sessile, 

 solitary, axillary. The calyx is cup shaped with four short 

 lobes. The fruit globose, three quarters of inch through 

 glabrous except some long appressed red hairs at the 

 base. The calyx half an inch deep, the lobes 4, short, 

 recurved at the tip, covered outside with short hairs, within 

 with longer appressed red ones. 



D. embryopteris, L. Tongka. (Curtis). Lankawi, Kesap (Aniff). 



Oleace^e. 



Oka puberula, n. sp. 



Tree, bark white, thickly lenticellate, leaves opposite, 

 lanceolate, acute, or elliptic lanceolate, glabrous, pale be- 

 neath, shining above, thinly coriaceous, nerves 6-7 pairs, 

 midrib depressed above, elevate beneath, 4 inches long, lj 

 inch across or less, margins entire. Panicles terminal, 2 

 inches long, dense; rachis branchlets, etc., pubescent, bracts 

 small, lanceolate, oblong, persistent. Flowers in small 

 cymose tufts, nearly sessile, i inch long. Calyx cup- 

 shaped, lobes ovate, very short, pubescent. Corolla tube 

 half as long again minutely pubescent, lobes 5, thick oblong 

 with a rounded tip, not in pairs. Stamens 2, as long as the 

 petals minutely pubescent, Fruit panicle, larger, pubes- 

 cent. Drupes i inch long, black, glabrous, oblong with a 

 short terminal style. 



Perlis Chupeng (15223). 



A very distinct Olea on account of its pubescence. 



0. dentata, Wall. Kopah (Md. Aniff). 



Distrib. Burro ah to Penang. 



0. maritima, Wall. Perlis at Chupeng (14933). Distrib. 

 common in the Malay peninsula and islands in sandy 

 spots near the sea. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



